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- Subject: Shoot-to-Kill in Belfast
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- 5 December 1992
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- SHOOT-TO-KILL IN BELFAST
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- A young Irish republican was shot dead by police in Belfast on
- Wednesday 25th November in what seems to have been a pre-planned
- shoot-to-kill operation. 22 year old Pearse Jordan was driving
- along the Falls Road when his car was rammed and forced onto the
- pavement by two cars. As he stumbled from the car he was shot in
- the back three times with a Heckler and Koch rifle, by an
- undercover member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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- Pearse Jordan, who was an IRA volunteer, was unarmed and had made
- no attempt to run away when he got out of the car.
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- As usually happens in such cases, the RUC immediately launched a
- propaganda offensive to hide the true facts of the killing. For
- instance it was initially reported that the shooting was connected
- with the discovery of a bomb-making factory in a nearby house. In
- fact, the house that was raided was over half a mile way, and
- nothing was found in the house or at any other building that
- night.
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- After Pearse's murder, local people held a candle-lit vigil at the
- scene. Thousands of people attended Pearse Jordan's funeral,
- resisting attempts by the RUC to intimidate them. At one point,
- women mourners prevented an RUC armoured car from driving through
- the funeral cortege.
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